Game apparatus.



W. GRIKSUHEIT.

GAME APPARATUS.

AYPLIGATION FILED JULY 18.1913.

1,121,353. Patented Dec.15,1914.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR 1 y W'i/iam Grist/26F, wi a ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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GAIE APPARATUS.

Specification o1 Letter-shunt.

Application filed I111; 18, 1918. Serial No. 779,887.

ner of releasing and resetting the mechani-' cal part of the device.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a side view of the complete invention; the dotted lines show position of the rings at the starting point, the dot and dash lines showin the path taken, and the dotted'arrow in 'cates the movement of the tilting device. Fig.2 shows the tilting device in a position to release the rings, the dotted arrow indicating position assumed in "Fig.

1. Fig. 3 is a frontview of several groups of horns or han ers for the ring. Fig. 4 is an enlarged p an or top view of the complete tilting device, standing vertically,

and Fig. 5 is a side view of Fig. 4, the horns being broken away. r

Similar reference characters denote like parts in the several views.

A screw eye, 1, is fastened in the ceiling or board, 2, at a proper point; a cord or rope, 3, is fastened in-this eye, and at the lower or free end of the cord a ring, 4, is secured. Three straight rods 5,. 6, 7, are each rovided with an eye which engages the ring, 4; these rods are preferably of varying lengths; on the free end of each rod, an eye is formed at right angles to the upper eye, a ring 8, 9, 10, respectively being engaged by each eye, as shown.

A horn board, 11, is mounted on two brackets, 12, 12 and held in a receptive position as shown in Fig. 1 by a helical spring, 13, one end of the spring being fastened in the bracket, 12, and the other end in the board, 11. A pair of short brackets, 14, 14 are journaled on a shaft, 15. The bracket 12 has two inte ral lugs, 12, 12", to limit the movement 0 the board 11, by being engaged by a stud 16 carried by the bracket 14. A screw eye, 17, is fastened near the lower inner edge of the board 11. Midway Patented Doc, 15, 1914..

between the brackets, "12, 12' a sheave, 18, IS secured to a wall or other suitable sup port.

.The releasing means consist of a handle, 19, rope, 20, passing over sheaves, 21, 22,

and around sheave, 18, the end of said rope being fastened to the screw eye, 17.

The horns 23, 24, 25, ma be arranged as shown in Fig. 3, the detai s not being essential, provided there is a horn for each ring. I show three hornsand three rings, although two or more may be employed without departing from the spirit of my.

invention.

Such being the construction, the operation is as follows :A player stands at A and seizes the rings, 8, 9, 10, in'his hands, the horn board standing in a receptive position, as shown in Fig. 1. The object is to swing the p ndulum cord, 3, toward the board in such la way that one or more of '75 'the rings will engage one or more of the horns. If none are caught, the rin will swing back to A to be seized again. If however one or more rings are caught by the horn or horns, they can be released by pulling down on the handle, 19, which tilts the board, by reason of the strain on rope 20, when the tilting board assumes position shown in Fig. 2. By releasing the handle 19, the spring 13 resets the board to position shown in Fig. 1, ready for the next player.

What I claim is 1. In a game of the class described, a bracket support, a shaft carried thereby, a horn board journaled on said shaft, an axial spring on saidshaft enga 'ng at one end the horn board and at its 0t er end the support, means for tilting the horn board against the tension of the s ring, a pendulum suspended adjacent the orn board, and rings carried by the end of the pendulum adapted to be swung to engage the horns.

2. In a game of the class described, a pivotally-mounted horn board, a spring engaging the horn board to hold the same in operative position, a rope connected to said horn board and adapted to be operated to move the same against the tension of the spring to inoperative position, a pendulum suspended adjacent the horn board, and rings carried by the end of the pendulum adapted to be swung to engage the horns.

3. In a game of the class described, a

spring-controlledpivotally-mounted horn and State of New York this "16th day of hfiarg, a pgnduum rolpe sluspemfied ad'acegt July A. D. 1918. to cm oa'r,ap uraityo rigi ros v v carried by the free ends of the ro and WILLIAM GRIKSCHEIT 5 rings carried by the rods adapte to" be Witnesses:

swlmg to position to engage the horns. JAMES J. LAWLE'R,

Signed at New York city in the county 7 CHARLES V. DWYER. 

